leadership

Frank Ginsberg

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Entrepreneur. Icon. Legend. Artistic Director…all these apply when it comes to
Frank Ginsberg. But the title he’s most comfortable with is the one he started
with: Art Director. His singular style, distinguished by its differentiating power, has
helped build brands like Purina Cat Chow, U.S. Trust, Financial Times, Thomson
Reuters, Enterprise Rent-A- Car, Bacardi Rums and Van Cleef & Arpels. And
that’s just naming a few. His passion for ideas is deep and infectious. Come see
the view at AFG& and you’ll feel it too.

Dawn Terrazas

Executive Group Managing Director

A little Texas Hill Country, a little Uptown NYC, Dawn brings both grit and
elegance. She is an action-oriented brand leader and strategic advisor to global
brands, always out ahead of category trends. She has proven success in
launching new products as well as helping to grow billion-dollar brands. Dawn cut
her teeth at big global networks like Y&R and McCann Erickson, for clients like
Colgate-Palmolive, P&G, Capital One, and Mastercard. She currently serves as
New Business Lead and heads up AFGNorth America and AFGLatAm.

Amy Adams

Executive Group Managing Director

How do we do this differently? How do we do it better? Why isn’t anyone
responding to my midnight e-mails? Every day and most nights, Amy’s
inexhaustible energy and incisive ideas help make AFG& a smarter, more
invaluable partner for our clients. Also, she has this superhuman ability to thrive
on very little sleep. Which uniquely qualifies her to head up AFGEurope and
AFGAsia. Headquartered in London and working across time zones, Amy
spearheads the agency’s efforts around the globe.

Joe Petruccio

Co-Chief Creative Officer

In advertising today, there are still some creative directors who give you ideas
instead of jargon. Who teach teams how to be better creatives and better people.
Who take a client’s business as seriously as if it were their own. Joe’s one of
those guys. A gifted artist and social commentator, Joe is also the official artist of
Elvis Presley Enterprises and the Muhammad Ali Estate. He also maintains
highly followed sports blogs chronicling the misfortunes of the Mets and the Jets.

Gib Marquardt

Co-Chief Creative Officer

Gib, as in “BIG” spelled backwards. Big thinker. Big brand-builder. Big
heart. Also, a big-time believer in the power of words and ideas to shape and
transform brands. Gib started his career at JWT Chicago, creating award-winning
work for clients ranging from Kellogg’s Cereals to Miller Beer to Motorola Flip
Phones. At McCann New York he helped usher in a new era of creative focus for
Mastercard, Lucent Technologies, United Way, and AT&T. At AFG&, his wit and
warmth can be felt across the agency portfolio.

Yücel Erdogan

Co-Chief Creative Officer

What do you call an accomplished artist/critically acclaimed
photographer/director/award-winning art director? At AFG&, we call him Yücel.
Mr. Erdogan began his career at Publicis for Max Factor. He joined AFG& in
1999, winning and developing ground breaking work for Bacardi, Tumi,
Sally Hansen, Fortunoff, St. Regis, and Carrera y Carrera. After a brief stint
partnering with Sean “P Diddy” Combs to help catapult CIROC vodka to the
fastest-growing spirit in the world, Yücel returned to AFG& in 2015. We’re richer
for it.

Tara DeCoursey

Group Managing Director

There’s a difference between “hearing” and “listening.” Tara gets that. It’s what
has helped her build remarkable business partnerships over a 25-year career.
She has won awards from IPG for organic growth and from the Ad Council for
campaigns to end hate and discrimination, both of which demonstrate that Tara’s
approach is hands-on. From research and development to razor-sharp strategy
to final production, Tara is truly a team player. Could explain her die-hard
devotion to sports, particularly her beloved New York Yankees. Go Yanks. Go
Tara.

Agostino Colotti

CFO & COO

Augie once dreamt of being a copywriter. But the only agency job he could find
after college was in accounting. He kinda liked it. He went back to school and got
an MBA in finance. Fast-forward twenty years and Augie has held senior
positions at Havas, Omnicom, and IPG. Renowned for vendor relations and for
creating buying power across agency organizations, Augie helms the overall
financial operations and diversity efforts of AFG&. He is a coolly efficient
manager and numbers guy who also believes that the heart and soul of our
business is creative.

Jonathan Schleyer

Global Planning Director

Change agent. Visionary. Resident Frenchman. Jonathan is a polycultural
thinker/strategist. He is the brains behind and author of AFG&’s
proprietary SEAL strategic process, which guides the way we think and the work
we do. His far-reaching global branding experience means that he thinks beyond
borders and across cultures. And he’s a champion of simple, universal
storytelling to create campaigns that resonate and elevate. Based on the West
Coast, Jonathan currently guides Nestle Purina brands in the United States, Latin
America and Europe.